Add your plans here for creating your curriculum driven
blog or wiki with your class
Amanda
My plan is to use Kidblog this year with my first graders as a way to make conversations in and out of the class more meaningful. I think by incorporating blogs with our reading units will allow every child the chance to collaborate and share their thoughts. I feel that if I give my students the opportunity to use technology as a means of communication to bounce off and share their ideas with their peers will only enhance their curiosity and exigent in the classroom. I have created a blog as of now but I have yet to add my student’s names. My students are very tech savvy, in fact majority of them shared their favorite present from Christmas and every item was something technological based. I feel with the proper instruction and teaching my students will be able to successfully use kidblog. I have a feeling that at the beginning their posts might be surface level…but with practice I feel that my students will greatly benefit from using the blog.
Cari
I would like to incorporate blogs into a couple of my book clubs. I think blogging would increase engagement, participation, and book talk. I would like my book club to respond or comment on the purpose we set as a group when we meet. Our book club time is limited. I think that by intergrating blogs it will provide more opportunities for each student to share their thinking and give feedback to others. I also think this will increase my “quieter” students participation. Sometimes our book club discussions are dominated by the out going, louder students and my reserved students have difficulty interjecting their thoughts. I also think my students will be more eager to read what they are assigned and begin to thinker deeper about what they are reading so that they can contribute something thoughtful to the blog! I am excited to try this.
The EUs, EQs, and GLEs will be based on what unit of study in reading that we are working in. However, the blog activity in book clubs will always promote comprehension skills and increase higher order thinking no matter what unit of study the students are learning. We are beginning the Story Elements Unit.
EUs: Readers think about their thinking during reading and share that thinking with others. Effective stories have interrelated elements that help readers understand different texts.Story elements exist in various forms of literature (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry).Story elements can change with the development of a text. EQs: Why do readers need to think while they read?How do readers use story elements to understand a story?How do story elements change throughout the story?GLES:R2Cd: Cause and EffectR2B: Figurative LanguageR1Hf: Draw conclusions about settingR1Hb: Main IdeaR1Ha: Basic ComprehensionR1Ec: Context CluesR2Cf: Identify Story ElementsR3Cb: Main Idea and Supporting Details
Courtney
I am planning on using the blog I currently have for reading to use in writing. I am thinking that I will use the blog to help my students with persuasive writing. Right now we are beginning to collect ideas for our editorial by studying current events and forming opinions about them. I am working to help my students understand the power of persuasive language and methods they can use in their writing to convince their reader to agree with their stance. My idea is to have the students post about what their opinion is about their editorial topic and then allow their classmates to agree or disagree with them and give reasons why. Then the author can use the comments their peers made to use as they draft their piece. I am trying to make my students aware of how persuasive they already are by brainstorming times they convinced a peer, parent, sibling, teacher, etc to do or believe something they previously did not. The blog will be an ideal forum for the students to talk about their opinions and insights.
Debbie
I plan on using my blog to engage students in writing about their thinking in reading. They will be able to comment on my questions in a format that explains their own thinking and support their thoughts with evidence from the text. At first posts and comments will be related to stories I read aloud during class. The students will use a structure similar to what they use in their reading journals. We will see what evolves from there. I am hoping that students will eventually be able to create post questions themselves. We are currently learning about story elements in our reading curriculum. One of the EUs is “Readers are aware of story elements and know how to use them to gain greater understanding of the text.” Posts will focus on this EU for the time being and will then change focus as we move on to other units of study.
Kacey
My fifth grade class is currently beginning to study editorials and they will eventually write their own. In the past few years, I have noticed students struggling with seeing the other side of hot topics/issues. Therefore, my plan is to create a form for student to share their opinion about an issue they feel strongly about. Then, their classmates would respond to that student’s posts with their own opinion and ideas to share. Everyone would be sharing their own opinions (whether they disagree or agree) to the original post.
A couple of the EQs of our editorial unit are 1) How do people use writing to change their community or even the world? 2) How do writers use words to influence people? I feel this activity would be a perfect fit for these EQs. It will help the students see how their words and opinions can affect others. It will also help solve the my original problem with students seeing the other side of issues. Hopefully, classmates will share opposing feelings and shed some new light on the original student’s opinion.
The GLEs I will be hitting are 5th Grade Writing 2A – audience and purpose and 5th Grade Writing 2B – controlling idea and relevant, specifc details.
Kathy
I am starting a blog with my students, beginning with responses regarding books we read during read aloud. Eventually I would like to put more focus on types of thinking (which some of this will already be) so the students can see each other’s “deep” thoughts and learn from each other. These are examples of the types of entries I want to see in their reading notebooks. Toward the end of the year, they will be the ones posting. This is connected to our Reading Unit of Study “Story Elements.” EQ’s covered:
How do story elements help me understand what I am reading?
What makes story elements important?
How do changes in story elements affect the outcome of a text?
Blogging: A Powerful Learning Tool for the Exchange and Evolution of Ideas! Both of my teammates use blogging as a forum for written reading responses for book clubs and read aloud. I have decided to follow their lead. I feel this will be a great way as a teacher, and first time classroom blogger, to gain experience & learn trouble shooting as well as expose the students to a new and technologically involved way to share, respond, and communicate responses after reading. In addition, students can not only consider their peers’ responses but react to them which is a learning style the school literacy coach and I have aimed to foster within my classroom. My class, like so many others, is made up of a wide range of readers; 2nd- 6th grade reading levels! Thus, it is so important for students to challenge each other & gain understanding from the communication & the sharing of thoughts. It is not only a skill that they can carry with them throughout life, (real world, job applicable situations), but it is a very powerful exchange and evolution of ideas! The following EQ’s, EU’s & GLE’s will be demonstrated throughout the entire year with the use of blogging as a way to respond to readers.
Our current reading unit is Synthesizing:
EQ’s:
How does reading change us? How does it change our thinking, our attitudes, our lives?
How do readers make new meaning for themselves from the ideas of others?
EU’s:
The meaning a reader constructs from a text depends on the knowledge and experience he/she brings to a text.
GLE’s:
Car3Ca- Car3Ci This series of GLE’s includes using the details of the text for better understanding in a variety of ways (these ways include the 5th grade power GLE’s for Reading, such as main idea, cause and effect, etc.) Ongoing Reading Curriculum EQ’s, EU’s & GLE’s that will be touched upon during blogging. (From Readers Build Good Habits & Questioning the Text & Author units)
EQ’s:
How do habits and routines support our reading?
How do readers capture and communicate their thinking about texts?
How can a reader’s notebook help the reader think deeply and communicate about the text?
How do the author’s view and biases impact the message of the text?
How do questions effect our conversations with other readers?
EU’s:
Readers acquire habits that support their ongoing reading development and enjoyment.
Readers utilize various strategies to think about their text.
Readers capture and communicate their thinking about texts in a variety of ways.
Readers ask questions for many reasons.
Purposeful questioning leads to more questioning and deeper thinking.
GLE’s:
CAL1Aa.i – CAL1Ba.i : Demonstrating listening behaviors (read aloud)
CAR1Fa- CAR1Fb : Using pre-reading strategies
CAR1Ha- CAR1Hi : Post reading skills to demonstrate comprehension of text
Susan
I think I am goint to do a ”class read aloud” blog. All the children will be hearing the same story and comment on the question(s) that are being asked. The will have to provide evidence to support their thinking when answering the question. I will pull in the current unit of study which is studying character, setting, problem, solution, and sequence. Each group of students will have to share the story element that is assigned to them. This is an easy start for me…
Add your plans here for creating your curriculum driven
blog or wiki with your class
Amanda
My plan is to use Kidblog this year with my first graders as a way to make conversations in and out of the class more meaningful. I think by incorporating blogs with our reading units will allow every child the chance to collaborate and share their thoughts. I feel that if I give my students the opportunity to use technology as a means of communication to bounce off and share their ideas with their peers will only enhance their curiosity and exigent in the classroom. I have created a blog as of now but I have yet to add my student’s names. My students are very tech savvy, in fact majority of them shared their favorite present from Christmas and every item was something technological based. I feel with the proper instruction and teaching my students will be able to successfully use kidblog. I have a feeling that at the beginning their posts might be surface level…but with practice I feel that my students will greatly benefit from using the blog.Cari
I would like to incorporate blogs into a couple of my book clubs. I think blogging would increase engagement, participation, and book talk. I would like my book club to respond or comment on the purpose we set as a group when we meet. Our book club time is limited. I think that by intergrating blogs it will provide more opportunities for each student to share their thinking and give feedback to others. I also think this will increase my “quieter” students participation. Sometimes our book club discussions are dominated by the out going, louder students and my reserved students have difficulty interjecting their thoughts. I also think my students will be more eager to read what they are assigned and begin to thinker deeper about what they are reading so that they can contribute something thoughtful to the blog! I am excited to try this.The EUs, EQs, and GLEs will be based on what unit of study in reading that we are working in. However, the blog activity in book clubs will always promote comprehension skills and increase higher order thinking no matter what unit of study the students are learning. We are beginning the Story Elements Unit.
EUs:
Readers think about their thinking during reading and share that thinking with others. Effective stories have interrelated elements that help readers understand different texts.Story elements exist in various forms of literature (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry).Story elements can change with the development of a text.
EQs:
Why do readers need to think while they read?How do readers use story elements to understand a story?How do story elements change throughout the story? GLES:R2Cd: Cause and EffectR2B: Figurative LanguageR1Hf: Draw conclusions about settingR1Hb: Main IdeaR1Ha: Basic ComprehensionR1Ec: Context CluesR2Cf: Identify Story ElementsR3Cb: Main Idea and Supporting Details
Courtney
I am planning on using the blog I currently have for reading to use in writing. I am thinking that I will use the blog to help my students with persuasive writing. Right now we are beginning to collect ideas for our editorial by studying current events and forming opinions about them. I am working to help my students understand the power of persuasive language and methods they can use in their writing to convince their reader to agree with their stance. My idea is to have the students post about what their opinion is about their editorial topic and then allow their classmates to agree or disagree with them and give reasons why. Then the author can use the comments their peers made to use as they draft their piece. I am trying to make my students aware of how persuasive they already are by brainstorming times they convinced a peer, parent, sibling, teacher, etc to do or believe something they previously did not. The blog will be an ideal forum for the students to talk about their opinions and insights.Debbie
I plan on using my blog to engage students in writing about their thinking in reading. They will be able to comment on my questions in a format that explains their own thinking and support their thoughts with evidence from the text. At first posts and comments will be related to stories I read aloud during class. The students will use a structure similar to what they use in their reading journals. We will see what evolves from there. I am hoping that students will eventually be able to create post questions themselves.
We are currently learning about story elements in our reading curriculum. One of the EUs is
“Readers are aware of story elements and know how to use them to gain greater understanding of the text.”
Posts will focus on this EU for the time being and will then change focus as we move on to other units of study.
Kacey
My fifth grade class is currently beginning to study editorials and they will eventually write their own. In the past few years, I have noticed students struggling with seeing the other side of hot topics/issues. Therefore, my plan is to create a form for student to share their opinion about an issue they feel strongly about. Then, their classmates would respond to that student’s posts with their own opinion and ideas to share. Everyone would be sharing their own opinions (whether they disagree or agree) to the original post.
A couple of the EQs of our editorial unit are 1) How do people use writing to change their community or even the world? 2) How do writers use words to influence people? I feel this activity would be a perfect fit for these EQs. It will help the students see how their words and opinions can affect others. It will also help solve the my original problem with students seeing the other side of issues. Hopefully, classmates will share opposing feelings and shed some new light on the original student’s opinion.
The GLEs I will be hitting are 5th Grade Writing 2A – audience and purpose and 5th Grade Writing 2B – controlling idea and relevant, specifc details.
Kathy
I am starting a blog with my students, beginning with responses regarding books we read during read aloud. Eventually I would like to put more focus on types of thinking (which some of this will already be) so the students can see each other’s “deep” thoughts and learn from each other. These are examples of the types of entries I want to see in their reading notebooks. Toward the end of the year, they will be the ones posting.
This is connected to our Reading Unit of Study “Story Elements.”
EQ’s covered:
- How do story elements help me understand what I am reading?
- What makes story elements important?
- How do changes in story elements affect the outcome of a text?
GLE’s covered:Libby
Blogging: A Powerful Learning Tool for the Exchange and Evolution of Ideas!
Both of my teammates use blogging as a forum for written reading responses for book clubs and read aloud. I have decided to follow their lead. I feel this will be a great way as a teacher, and first time classroom blogger, to gain experience & learn trouble shooting as well as expose the students to a new and technologically involved way to share, respond, and communicate responses after reading. In addition, students can not only consider their peers’ responses but react to them which is a learning style the school literacy coach and I have aimed to foster within my classroom. My class, like so many others, is made up of a wide range of readers; 2nd- 6th grade reading levels! Thus, it is so important for students to challenge each other & gain understanding from the communication & the sharing of thoughts. It is not only a skill that they can carry with them throughout life, (real world, job applicable situations), but it is a very powerful exchange and evolution of ideas!
The following EQ’s, EU’s & GLE’s will be demonstrated throughout the entire year with the use of blogging as a way to respond to readers.
Our current reading unit is Synthesizing:
EQ’s:
How does reading change us? How does it change our thinking, our attitudes, our lives?
How do readers make new meaning for themselves from the ideas of others?
EU’s:
The meaning a reader constructs from a text depends on the knowledge and experience he/she brings to a text.
GLE’s:
Car3Ca- Car3Ci This series of GLE’s includes using the details of the text for better understanding in a variety of ways (these ways include the 5th grade power GLE’s for Reading, such as main idea, cause and effect, etc.)
Ongoing Reading Curriculum EQ’s, EU’s & GLE’s that will be touched upon during blogging. (From Readers Build Good Habits & Questioning the Text & Author units)
EQ’s:
How do habits and routines support our reading?
How do readers capture and communicate their thinking about texts?
How can a reader’s notebook help the reader think deeply and communicate about the text?
How do the author’s view and biases impact the message of the text?
How do questions effect our conversations with other readers?
EU’s:
Readers acquire habits that support their ongoing reading development and enjoyment.
Readers utilize various strategies to think about their text.
Readers capture and communicate their thinking about texts in a variety of ways.
Readers ask questions for many reasons.
Purposeful questioning leads to more questioning and deeper thinking.
GLE’s:
CAL1Aa.i – CAL1Ba.i : Demonstrating listening behaviors (read aloud)
CAR1Fa- CAR1Fb : Using pre-reading strategies
CAR1Ha- CAR1Hi : Post reading skills to demonstrate comprehension of text
Susan
I think I am goint to do a ”class read aloud” blog. All the children will be hearing the same story and comment on the question(s) that are being asked. The will have to provide evidence to support their thinking when answering the question. I will pull in the current unit of study which is studying character, setting, problem, solution, and sequence. Each group of students will have to share the story element that is assigned to them. This is an easy start for me…